Author:Robert Louis Stevenson

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Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)

sister projects: Wikipedia article, Commons gallery, quotes. A Scottish novelist, poet, and travel writer famous for his novels of adventure, romance, and horror. The icon  identifies that the work includes a spoken word version. This author wrote articles for the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica. Articles written by this author are designated in EB1911 by the initials "R. L. S."

Robert Louis Stevenson

Works

Novels

• Treasure Island (1883, index)
• The Black Arrow (1883-1888)
• Prince Otto (1885, index)
• Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde (1886)
  • The Annotated Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde - Wikisource community annotation project.
• Kidnapped (Adventures of David Balfour, 1886)
• The Master Of Ballantrae (1889)
• The Wrong Box, co-authored by Lloyd Osbourne (1889)
• The Wrecker, co-authored by Lloyd Osbourne (1892)
• Catriona (Adventures of David Balfour, 1893)
• The Ebb-Tide (1894)
• Weir of Hermiston (1896, unfinished)
• St. Ives (1897, unfinished)

Short stories

• Fables
  • The Scientific Ape
• The Bottle Imp
• The Clockmaker
• The Far-Farers
• Let Love Go, If Go She Will
• A Lodging for the Night
• Markheim
• The Merry Men
• Olalla
• Our Lady of the Snows, as published in Underwoods
• The Pavilion on the Links, as published in The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Modern English
• A Penny Plain and Twopence Coloured, as published in Memories and Portraits
• Requiem
• The Story of a Lie
• Thrawn Janet
• The Treasure of Franchard
• Will o' the Mill
• The Sire de Maletroit's Door

Short story collections

• New Arabian Nights (1882)
• More New Arabian Nights: The Dynamiter (1885)
• The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables (1887)
• Island Nights' Entertainments (South Sea Tales, 1893)

Travel writing

• An Inland Voyage (1878)
• Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes
  • A Mountain Town in France - original opening chapter of Travels
  • The Annotated 'Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes' - Wikisource community annotation project.
• The Silverado Squatters (1883)
• The Amateur Emigrant: The Silverado Squatters (1905) ([The Amateur Emigrant-The Silverado Squatters.djvu External scan])
• Across The Plains (1879-1880 - 1892)
• The Amateur Emigrant (written 1879–80, published 1895)
• Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes - Index
• In the South Seas

Poems

Collections

• A Child's Garden of Verses (1885)

Individual poems

• Et tu in Arcadia Vixisti
• The Lamplighter (1885)
• To H. F. Brown (1887)
• Pirate Story
• Whole Duty of Children
• Young Night-Thought
• At the Sea-side
• A Thought
• Bed in Summer
• To Alison Cunningham

Essays

• Virginibus Puerisque (1881)
• Memories and Portraits (1887)
• The Art of Writing

Magazine articles

• The Old Pacific Capital on Monterey, California.
• Thomas Stevenson, Civil Engineer on his father.

Letters

• Vailima Letters (1895)
• The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson Volume 1
• The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson Volume 2

Other

• Records of a Family of Engineers
• “Béranger, Pierre Jean de” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.
• A Christmas Sermon, 1900

Works about Stevenson

• “Stevenson, Robert Louis,” in Dictionary of National Biography, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., (1885-1900) in 63 vols.
• Robert Louis Stevenson: a short biography (ca.1900), by Edmund Gosse who knew Stevenson personally.
• “Stevenson, Robert Louis Balfour” in The Nuttall Encyclopædia by James Wood, London: Frederick Warne and Co., Ltd., 1907.
• “Stevenson, Robert Louis” in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1910.
• By Florence Earle Coates: "The Difference", "The Burial of Robert Louis Stevenson at Samoa".
• "Robert Louis Stevenson" in Studies of a Biographer, vol 4 (1902) by Leslie Stephen

On his works

• Treasure Island - Annotations
• “Kidnapped” by Arthur Guiterman  in The Encyclopedia Americana. New York, 1920.

Works by this author published before January 1, 1923 are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.